Hollersbach im Pinzgau, Zell am See District, Salzburg, Austria

Photo and in the collection of Volker Hoppe.

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peter neschen collection (08137)

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Black eclarite, in quartz. 0.5 cm field of view. S078-08 Excalibur Mineral specimen.

© 2007, JGW

Field of view 7 mm. Collection M. Kampf No 69-038.

Eclarite with Chalcopyrite in Quartz. Fov: 21 mm. Collection and photo: Conny Larsson

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FOV 5 x 7 mm Collection and photo Roberto Bosi

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Sony Alpha 7R ii, bellows, Mitutoyo M Plan 20x, aperture, Raynox DCR-250 retro, Stack-Master linear actor, stack shot control. Analysed material. Collection and photo Stephan Wolfsried

© Stephan Wolfsried 1/2017

peter neschen collection (09334)

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Size of the view : 17 x 8,5 cm Rauchquarz ( Morion ) auf Gneis Collection and photographer : Gerd Stefanik

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Gemmy dark red hessonite with clinochlore Size : 8 x 8,5 cm

Widht of the piece : 10 cm

Black intergrown smoky quartz (Morion) with highest luster and partly white adularia crystals atop. Better in person. An old find. 22 x 12,5 x 7,5 cm

Titanite twin, bicolor, high lustrous on white aplit gneis, minor chlorite Locality : Lienziger, Hollerbach valley, Pinzgau, Austria Dimension : Major crystal up to 16 mm, 8,5 cm wide.

A cabinet Alpine specimen of lustrous, snow-white adularia crystals highlighted by gem-like, very glassy, colorless stilbite crystals on a shard of matrix from a famous Austrian locality - Speibing Gorge, Hollersbach valley. The stilbite crystals reach 5.5 cm and this piece is essentially damage-free! Remarkable for such a large specimen. From the ...

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2 generations of calcite, - 4cm white pericline x - 3,5cm small white scolecite xx Size : 14 x 15 cm Locality : Speibingklamm

This i a very fine specimen, the biggest crystals measure around cm 1,5 and they are all perfect ones with a beautiful green grass color. Photo Franco Lazzari.

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Large specimen of adularia with some green chlorite dusting. Obtained from Gilbert Gauthier during the 1985 Munich show. Collection and photo, Paul De Bondt.

© Collection and photo, Paul De Bondt

Size : 8 x 8 cm

FOV 3,0 mm; Chris Auer photo and collection, swapped in 1998

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Cosalite in Quartz. Fov: 8 mm. Collection and photo: Conny Larsson

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Widht of the piece : 7,6 cm Locality : Speibingklamm, Hollersbachtal

Diameter of the big crystal: 5,5cm. Hubert Fink Collection

Nice crystal of Orthoclase (Var. Adularia).

© Elmar Lackner 2007

Small red sparkling translucent hessonite crystals in outstanding quality combinated with black-greenish tabular clinochlore crystals. 7 x 7 x 5 cm

3,5cm high. Collection & Photo: Christian Hager

Stilbit auf Adular White stilbite in classical growth,partly rosettes building on adularia,the backside of adularia shows the shape of big dissolved calcite crystals Dimension : 13 x 12 cm Locality :Speibingklamm, Hollersbachtal, Pinzgau, Austria

Aquamarine, the crystal measures 6 cm.

© Harjo Neutkens

Aquamarine. Field of view is 1 cm.

© Harjo Neutkens

Scalenohedral white translucent calcite twin, from tip to tip 9 cm, attached on smaller calcite xx. Height approx. : 8,5 cm

3.4 x 1.7 x 1.2 cm. Another rare piece out of the Wein Collection, acquired in 1967 according to the collection card (which comes with the piece). This is a complete crystal of titanite with a complete, gemmy termination with bright green color. It has textbook form for the species, and fine luster on the upper faces. A rare European oldie!

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Deep cherry red dodecahedral hessonite crystals are richly literally set on matrix in association with complimentary tabular books of clinochlore. The dark color, gemminess, and bright faces are the features of this alpine occurence. Found from the 1970's. Overall size : 18 x 14 x 8 cm

A nice 3mm Aquamarine crystal. Collected in 2006 Photo and Collection of Martin Slama

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White intergrown adularia rhombs are resting on amphibolite. Backside small pericline layer with sprinkled small green titanite.

Eclarite with Chalcopyrite in Quartz. Fov: 13 mm. Collection and photo: Conny Larsson

© Conny Larsson

White stilbite crystals on " Skelettquartz ". Overall size : 10,5 x 7 cm Locality : Speibingklamm, Hollersbachtal

Eclarite on quartz associated with chalcopyrite. Brent Thorne specimen and photograph.

© Brent Thorne 2009

3,5cm high. Collection & Photo: Christian Hager

14.7 x 8.5 x 8.2 cm. An IMPOSING CABINET Alpine specimen of lustrous, snow-white adularia crystals highlighted by gem-like, very glassy, colorless stilbite crystals on a shard of matrix from a famous Austrian locality - Speibing Gorge, Hollersbach valley. The stilbite crystals reach 5.5 cm and this showy piece is essentially damage-free! ...

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A transparent and water clear distorted rock crystal, showing a lot of clarity and gemminess ,some skeletal prism faces, front showing bright faces, backside rehealed, with a hat of white rhombic adularia crystals, highlighted by stilbite, which is piled up to hemispherical shaped clusters of cream color. An old find, see second image, showing ...

Nearly black smoky quartz with a partly layer of white small harmotome xls. Size :9 x 13 x 6 cm

dimension area mm. 2 x 2 photo and collection Luigi Chiappino

Nice stilbite rosette jauntily placed atop sharp adularia cluster. Size: 4 x 3,5 x 3,5 cm

Highest luster and intense dark color are the features of this alpine smoky quartz. 14 x 8 x 7 cm

Beautiful specimen alpine which today is very difficult or impossible to find on the market. Specimen found in June 1976. Photo Franco Lazzari.

© FRANCO LAZZARI

15 cm crystal aggregate. Picture taken at Bramberg Museum (Austria). One of the best Alpine sphene specimens, found by Ferdinand Stockmaier.

White bundles of stilbite are resting on adularia, which is partly chlorite coated. Backside shows additional a tabular apatite crystal and blady green titanite - see 2nd image. Size : 11 x 7 x 4 cm

xtl size 0,2 mm; Chris Auer photo and collection, swapped in 2011

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Alpine sample - November of 2009.

© Photo & Collection of Martins da Pedra

Smoky quarz crystals; Size: 6,5 x 5,5 x 6,5 cm; Josef Huber from my Collection

© Josef Huber

Small but superb double-terminated smoky quartz from Hollersbach Valley in the Austrian Alps. My collection.

© Tobias Martin

White Adularia crystals associated with a colourless Calcite 'paper spar' crystal. Specimen deacquisitioned.

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peter neschen collection (07782)

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peter neschen collection (07998)

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6.7 x 1.7 x 0.6 cm. A classic, doubly terminated titanite crystal from the well-known Senning (Speibing) Gorge of Austria. This is a gemmy and lustrous, olive-green, flattened, wedge-shaped crystal has very prominent, twinned, reentry angles on one edge. One end of the "spear-point" is particularly gemmy. A large, highly representative, ...

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White curls of cannonite, platty white xtls of anglesite, grey eclarite and golden chalcopyrite in quartz; SEM-EDS analysed; Chris Auer photo and collection, present from A.Lechner (Siegsdorf, Germany)

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peter neschen collection (07630_01)

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Specimen size is 2,7 x 2,5 cm.

© Stefan Koch

Fine blocky colorless semi-lustrous slightly translucent crystals of adularia are perched on one end of a matrix with crystalline white calcite. The crystals are damage-free and shows nicely all around. Ex Wolfgang E. Henkel collection.

© Weinrich Minerals, Inc.

© Rudo

3.0 x 2.0 x 1.5 cm. Silvery-gray, fan-shaped aggregates of acicular crystals of the rare sulfide eclarite on white quartz with chalcopyrite. Very good specimen from the type locality. Ex. Paulo Matioli collection. Photos by Tom and Melissa Campbell.

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Fibrous cannonite on quartz This SEM(BSE) picture was first published in: - Auer, C. (2017): 2033) Cannonit vom Bärenbad, Hollersbachtal, Salzburg. In: Neue Mineralfunde aus Österreich LXVI, Carinthia II, vol. 207./127., p.217-284, Klagenfurt.

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peter neschen collection (g-05933_03)

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Two 3 cm crystals in a calcite matrix. Picture taken at Bramberg Museum (Austria)

In Coll. M. Slama Canon EOS 600D with Canon MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x, stacked from 19 Images using Zerene Stacker (Pmax)

© Martin Slama

peter neschen collection (08089a_01)

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The microstructure of eclarite mineralization from Bärenbad, type locality. Cross-section through a fragment of eclarite-bearing copper ore illustrating aggregates of cracky chalcopyrite (Ccp – yellow), in association with bismuthinite (Bin – pale bluish grey) and microscopically native bismuth (Bi – spotty creamy white), in matrix of ...

© Günter Grundmann, Detmold.

Strongly foliated, fine-grained amphibolite showing lens-shaped amphibole porphyroblasts (green and brown rotation tints), formed during upper greenschist facies Alpidian Metamorphism. Almost black, elongated lenses consist of titanite. Thin section, transmitted plane polarized light digital image, width 8 mm. G. Grundmann collection and ...

© Günter Grundmann, Detmold.

peter neschen collection (09809)

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Fine blocky colorless semi-lustrous slightly translucent crystals of adularia to 2.5 cm in size are perched on one end of a 6.3 x 4.4 x 4.5 cm matrix with crystalline white calcite. The crystals are damage-free and shows nicely all around. Ex Wolfgang E. Henkel collection.

© Weinrich Minerals, Inc.

peter neschen collection (09876) (from Coll. H.Schabereiter)

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peter neschen collection (08089e)

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SEM-EDS analysed; Chris Auer photo and collection, present from A.Lechner (Siegsdorf, Germany)

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peter neschen collection (09276b)

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Chris Auer photo and collection, present from A.Lechner (Siegsdorf, Germany)

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In Coll. M.Slama Canon EOS 600D with Tamron SP AF 90mm 2,8 Di VC USD Macro , stacked from 11 Images using Zerene Stacker (Pmax)

© Martin Slama